Quotes About Shakespeare

Shakespeare was compounded of too many and too large elements to have been a poet only.

There is no passion of the human heart, no speculation of the human mind, to which Shakespeare has not, in some passage or another, given expressive utterance.

Italy during Shakespeare's time had citizens of all cultures and colors. To pretend that it did not is ignorance. And I don't waste my time on ignorance.

As a child, I would watch 'Frasier' a lot, and there was one episode with Derek Jacobi where he was playing this Shakespearean actor that was a terrible Hamlet. And he reenacted the performance, and for days I went on. I'd perform and do that, and I knew I wanted to do something kind of like that as a kid for awhile.

Shakespeare is rich and beautiful, and it can be an amazing experience to read and to watch and to work on.

I owe so much to Shakespeare. Nothing is more humbling and more exhilarating than taking ahold of those sacred words and riding them like a wave.

We cannot arrive at Shakespeare's whole dramatic way of looking at the world from his tragedies alone, as we can arrive at Milton's way of regarding things, or at Wordsworth's or at Shelley's, by examining almost any one of their important works.

I played Hamlet, I played Chekhov and Ibsen and all the classics.

I don't know anything about being a royal child. But I have played Shakespearian kings.

It's impossible to have a favourite Shakespeare, since so many of the plays rouse and inspire completely different parts of your being.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

Shakespeare was very political, but he was also a fabulous entertainer. That's where his genius comes in as a playwright.

I enjoy all forms of writing, but playwrighting is what made me what I am. Not only working with the ghosts of Chekhov and Ibsen and Shakespeare, but what it is to be a playwright, to be interacting with human beings in the live theater and affect people on such a direct, emotional level.

But if Shakespeare himself is maybe about meaning and truth, I don't know, then he is certainly about pleasure and interest, we start with pleasure and interest, but maybe eventually it gets to meaning and truth.

When I read 'Paradise Lost,' or 'Richard III,' it is clear that Milton and Shakespeare took real pleasure and satisfaction from creating these epitomes of evil.

There's that old adage about how there's only seven plots in the world and Shakespeare's done them all before.

Shakespeare is, after all, Britain's greatest poet and dramatist.

I got my Actors' Equity card officially by playing Nana the dog in 'Peter Pan' at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. That was the first show I did as a full-fledged, dues-paying member; I earned points in my MFA program, then went into the company after I graduated.

Clarity is so important for Shakespeare.

I've been doing some Shakespeare acting classes - and I really enjoyed it. I never thought that would be something I would say, but I am.

I started out doing a lot of theater, a lot of Shakespeare, classic plays.

There was always this idea that I would work on Shakespeare and some of the other classics, but it never came to be.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be an actor in classics like Shaw and Shakespeare and Chekov and Ibsen.

England is a mecca for actors who want to do the classics.